DESCRIPTION:
First Time played cover of Murray McLauchlan's
Honky Red
I ain't got no back porch, ain't got no rockin' chair
I've got a worn-out coat and a shaky hand and a face like a grizzly bear
I'm an old wino and I scare your neighbours
Yeah, you might say I'm a bum.
But I'm sure wired up on that Honky Red and that good Gold Anchor rum

CHORUS
When I need a drink it's stains on the sink,
it's "Please" and "Thank you, Ma'am."
But when I've got a head full of Honky Red
I don't give no good god-damn.

Well I fought in your wars now I sleep in your doors and I left one leg in 'Nam.
All that remains is a ghostly pain when the mornings get too damp.
I was born in the stix and I got Grade 6 so I ain't much in demand
I deliver handbills and I steal red pills for the boys in the whore-house band

CHORUS
When I need a drink it's stains on the sink,
it's "Please" and "Thank you, Ma'am."
But when I've got a head full of Honky Red
I don't give no good god-damn.

Well I got me a woman I see sometimes now she's damn near half a ton
And in a furnished room at the Joyceville Pen I got me a no-good son
But I'll keep on drinking that Honky Red until the reaper tolls his bell
If I'm as high when I die as I was when I lived I'll be in Heaven just as sure as hell.

CHORUS
When I need a drink it's stains on the sink,
it's "Please" and "Thank you, Ma'am."
But when I've got a head full of honky red
I don't give no good god-damn.